Belo Horizonte

A football fan was shot and killed Sunday during a clash of rival supporters in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte, just hours before a game between Cruzeiro and Atletico Mineiro, police said Sunday.

The 40-year-old ex-Barcelona and AC Milan midfielder, who won the Champions League and World Cup in an illustrious career, will remain in isolation in a Belo Horizonte hotel.

Brazil coach Tite said he's been having sleepless nights ahead of the Copa America semi-final against Argentina.

Thirty-four people were confirmed dead and nearly 300 missing Saturday, with hopes fading of them being found alive, after a dam collapsed at a mine in southeast Brazil.

Houses halfway submerged, streets overflowing with water, cars floating, even banging into one another - that may sound like a scene from an apocalyptic movie but was in fact the reality. A video circulating on social media shows the exact scene in Brazil's Belo Horizonte. The city has been ravaged by flash floods and the video shows the scary cond...

Neymar took his tally to 50 goals in 74 games as Brazil recorded their fifth consecutive victory under new coach Tite to remain on top of South America's World Cup qualification table

Arch-rivals Brazil and Argentina will take on each other in the 2018 World Cup qualifier in Belo Horizonte on Thursday.

The US rock band Pearl Jam is donating $100,000 to victims of a toxic mining spill in Brazil that killed at least 13 people and was the country's worst environmental disaster.

Arsenal's Alexis Sachez scored Chile's equaliser in the dramatic last-16 clash with Brazil in Belo Horizonte but Julio Cesar saved two penalties, including one from Sanchez, to seal a 3-2 win for Brazil in the shoot-out.

The 58 men's and women's matches will be staged at Corinthians Arena (Sao Paulo), the Maracana and Olympic Stadium (Rio de Janeiro), Arena Fonte Nova (Salvador), Mane Garrincha Stadium (Brasilia), Amazonia Arena (Manaus) and the Mineirao (Belo Horizonte).

Brazil's FIFA World Cup 2014 dream was left in tatters when they suffered a record 7-1 defeat to Germany in Tuesday's semifinal in Belo Horizonte, with coach Luiz Felipe Scolari labelling that day as the worst of his life.

Joachim Loew turned up the pressure for the semifinal at Belo Horizonte by insisting Mexican referee Marco Rodriguez clamp down on hard challenges to ensure Brazil do not go "beyond what is acceptable."

Joachim Loew's Germany want to avenge their 2002 final defeat to Brazil by knocking the hosts out in Belo Horizonte to reach Sunday's final in Rio de Janeiro.

FIFA says on its website that Marco Rodriguez of Mexico will referee the match in Belo Horizonte on Tuesday. Luis Suarez's bite of Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini's shoulder went unseen and unpunished by the Mexican match official. FIFA later banned Suarez for nine international matches and four months from all football activity.

An unfinished overpass collapsed in the Brazilian World Cup host city of Belo Horizonte on Thursday, leaving at least one person dead and casting a shadow over a tournament that has suffered repeated construction accidents and delays.

A football fan was shot and killed Sunday during a clash of rival supporters in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte, just hours before a game between Cruzeiro and Atletico Mineiro, police said Sunday.

The 40-year-old ex-Barcelona and AC Milan midfielder, who won the Champions League and World Cup in an illustrious career, will remain in isolation in a Belo Horizonte hotel.

Brazil coach Tite said he's been having sleepless nights ahead of the Copa America semi-final against Argentina.

Thirty-four people were confirmed dead and nearly 300 missing Saturday, with hopes fading of them being found alive, after a dam collapsed at a mine in southeast Brazil.

Houses halfway submerged, streets overflowing with water, cars floating, even banging into one another - that may sound like a scene from an apocalyptic movie but was in fact the reality. A video circulating on social media shows the exact scene in Brazil's Belo Horizonte. The city has been ravaged by flash floods and the video shows the scary cond...

Neymar took his tally to 50 goals in 74 games as Brazil recorded their fifth consecutive victory under new coach Tite to remain on top of South America's World Cup qualification table

Arch-rivals Brazil and Argentina will take on each other in the 2018 World Cup qualifier in Belo Horizonte on Thursday.

The US rock band Pearl Jam is donating $100,000 to victims of a toxic mining spill in Brazil that killed at least 13 people and was the country's worst environmental disaster.

Arsenal's Alexis Sachez scored Chile's equaliser in the dramatic last-16 clash with Brazil in Belo Horizonte but Julio Cesar saved two penalties, including one from Sanchez, to seal a 3-2 win for Brazil in the shoot-out.

The 58 men's and women's matches will be staged at Corinthians Arena (Sao Paulo), the Maracana and Olympic Stadium (Rio de Janeiro), Arena Fonte Nova (Salvador), Mane Garrincha Stadium (Brasilia), Amazonia Arena (Manaus) and the Mineirao (Belo Horizonte).

Brazil's FIFA World Cup 2014 dream was left in tatters when they suffered a record 7-1 defeat to Germany in Tuesday's semifinal in Belo Horizonte, with coach Luiz Felipe Scolari labelling that day as the worst of his life.

Joachim Loew turned up the pressure for the semifinal at Belo Horizonte by insisting Mexican referee Marco Rodriguez clamp down on hard challenges to ensure Brazil do not go "beyond what is acceptable."

Joachim Loew's Germany want to avenge their 2002 final defeat to Brazil by knocking the hosts out in Belo Horizonte to reach Sunday's final in Rio de Janeiro.

FIFA says on its website that Marco Rodriguez of Mexico will referee the match in Belo Horizonte on Tuesday. Luis Suarez's bite of Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini's shoulder went unseen and unpunished by the Mexican match official. FIFA later banned Suarez for nine international matches and four months from all football activity.

An unfinished overpass collapsed in the Brazilian World Cup host city of Belo Horizonte on Thursday, leaving at least one person dead and casting a shadow over a tournament that has suffered repeated construction accidents and delays.